Environment

Summary

Validation Trust Protection (VTP) ensures McAfee processes are secure against vulnerabilies that could be leveraged by an attacker to gain additional privileges on a system. VTP monitors privileges granted to McAfee drivers by the operating system kernel interface during code execution and ensures the validity of McAfee processes utilizing those drivers. Only processes that contain code signed by either McAfee or Microsoft will be trusted to utilize most aspects of McAfee drivers.

This service, mfevtps.exe, is required to run on Host Intrusion Prevention 7.0 Patch 3 clients and cannot be terminated during runtime.

Solution

If there are any suspected issues with the McAfee Validation Trust Protection service, contact McAfee Support.